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Lads Magazines: End of an Era

Lads' magazines have officially met their maker. With the death of Loaded in March this year, the monthly publication whose once alluring combination of not-quite-supermodels showing more skin than clothes featuring articles about cars, boxer briefs and hair gel have lost their allure altogether. Instead it finds itself buried in the same...

Fashion

High speed internet to increase mobile shopping

Consumers are making ever more purchases from their smart phones and tablets and new research shows over one third of users will make more purchases with faster internet connections. In a survey of 2000 consumers by eDigitalResearch and IMRG, research showed 39 percent of smartphone owners have already used their mobile device to make a...

Fashion

Internet a threat to luxury brands?

Some luxury brands are worried about the effect of the consumer's ability to acquire 'vintage' finds on internet with the click of a button. With internet purchases often limited to affordable or discount finds, the idea that people can buy luxury items online without fear of being duped threatens luxury companies that have always differentiated...

Fashion

Sales Soar On The Net

UK retail spending on the Internet will grow by about 50 per cent this Christmas, according to research from Forrester due to be released this week. The company calculates that UK online spending will total EUR 14.5bn in 2003, Europe almost EUR 50bn and the US more than EUR100bn. Forrester believe retailers with experience in distance selling,...